Several hundred people were protesting downtown Bucharest Saturday evening, in Victoriei Square, in front of Government offices, against the PSD-ALDE coalition and against an expected new emergency ordinance on the criminal codes.
Some 2,000 people were in the square Saturday evening, hotnews.ro reports.
The protesters chanted ‘In democracy, thieves are in jail’, ‘PSD – the red plague’, ‘Many years ahead for Dragnea, in jail’.
Gendarmerie: We are politically equidistant. The charges against us, attempts to radicalisation
The Gendarmerie has answered to the public accusations regarding the way it intervened in the protests during the past days, stressing that it delimits from any accusation of inciting to violence and that the institution is politically equidistant.
“During the past days we are witnessing an attempt to forge new polarities between people and institutions, between generations, between children and parents. On the internet all sorts of messages or charges inciting to violence, hatred and intolerance are being launched. We are being overwhelmed by threats, charges against some people working for an institution who are meant to protest everyone,” the Romanian Gendarmerie wrote on its Facebook page.
The Gendarmerie claims this is an exploitation of an emotional potential in view of radicalisation against the forces meant to maintain public order.
“We want to remind you that the Romanian Gendarmerie is politically equidistant, acting by the law to ensure public order and public security,” the message reads.